VMware NSX VPN tunnels statistics collection with PowerShell

I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading

Horizon – One Golden Image, multiple Desktop Pools

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How to reduce the overhead of managing multiple Desktop Pools under Horizon? This is the question that everyone asks when they have multiple Desktop Pools serving multiple customers and one Golden Image for each of them. Answer to this question is very simple, multiple snapshots on the same Golden Image.… Continue reading

Update manager error: hosts could not enter maintenance mode

I started another round of the ESXi patching recently (because of this), when I experienced an unpleasant issue. Some of my clusters failed to remediate using update manager. Hosts failed to enter maintenance mode with the following message: Current progress of remediation: 0 hosts completed successfully, 0 hosts completed with… Continue reading

Persistent Static Routes on VCSA 6.5

Recently I updated a clients environment from vCenter Appliance 6.0U3 to 6.5U2. Until version 6.5 of VCSA, the operating system dispatched with the Appliance was SUSE, with VCSA 6.5 you get the new open source minimal Linux container host optimized, Photon OS. With VCSA 6.5 embedded VUM there was the need to enable… Continue reading

7 cool features with Altaro VM Backup 7.6

Some time ago we reviewed Altaro backup 6.0. It was first edition to support VMware, a flexible architecture, easy to install and use. Considering its affordable price, these were good reasons to choose Altaro over other solutions. Altaro developers worked hard meanwhile; the product has reached version 7.6 and its… Continue reading

vSphere Data Protection not accessible after upgrade to 6.1.6

After following the procedure to upgrade vSphere Data Protection 6.1.4 to 6.1.6 I lost access to it using vCenter plugin with the following error message:   The first thing that I checked was the services of vSphere Data Protection appliance Everything green… what now? vSphere Data Protection is working only vCenter plugin is not… Continue reading